The trial in Oakland, California has helped lift the veil on the AI sector – and the huge egos of the men at the heart of it.

  Reliable connectivity has become essential for South African SMEs wanting to meet the expectations of modern digital consumers.   [JOHANNESBURG, 19 MAY 2026] – In a digital-first market, customer experience is increasingly shaped by the quality of the connectivity sitting behind it.   For a small business, customer experience often lives in everyday moments. […]

Classic swipe apps are not as popular as they used to be. People are tired of the same profiles, unrecognisable processed photos, routine phrases, and texting that leads nowhere. However, the need for live communication remains. Therefore, it is not that online dating is dead; it has only transformed. Today, people are looking for each […]

For years, digitisation was largely the domain of large organisations. Enterprise software was expensive, implementation-heavy, and often designed for operational complexity that small businesses simply did not have. Beyond the software itself, the talent required to configure and maintain these systems placed digitisation even further out of reach for many SMMEs. Then came the SaaS […]

MyMoolah, a South African fintech company, today announced the launch of its core digital wallet, giving consumers a practical way to receive, store, send, spend and access money through one platform. The MyMoolah wallet is built for South Africa’s real economy, where digital payments and cash access must work together. Through the wallet, users can […]

Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage

Scientists have found high levels of toxic Pfas, or “forever chemicals”, in soil, water and throughout the marine food chain in the UK’s Solent strait, including at protected environmental sites, according to a new study.

In some samples, pollution was 13 times the...

Lititz, PA  — After deploying Helpany’s radar-based AI platform in January 2026, United Zion senior living community cut falls by 70% in four months — and closed April with zero recorded falls, a first in the community’s history. United Zion Retirement Community, a senior living community in Lititz, Pennsylvania and the first community in the […]

When Hims launched its men’s wellness platform in 2017 with a stripped-down telehealth model for finasteride and minoxidil, the pitch was disarmingly simple: skip the dermatologist, skip the awkward pharmacy run, get hair-loss medication delivered for the price of two coffees a week. Eight years later, the company reports roughly 2.3 million subscribers across its […]

Santa Clara, CA  – Top Global Banking IT Provider Cuts Months of OpenShift Testing to Days across a 16,000-Core, 1,300-Namespace Environment SolutionSoft Systems, Inc., a pioneer in virtual clock and time travel testing software, today announced that Atruvia AG, the digitalization partner of Germany’s cooperative banking sector, has successfully implemented Time Machine to streamline and […]

Most clothes are made in Asia, but new machines could bring some of that work back to the West.

Researchers hope the project will also help to identify barriers preventing hedgehogs from finding food and mates in the wild.

An outbreak of Ebola has emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, leading to nearly 400 confirmed cases and more than 100 deaths. To find out how the outbreak might have begun, what authorities can do to contain it and why this outbreak is causing particular concern, Ian Sample hears from Daniela Manno, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...